Case Worker Criminal Exploitation Cce (West Mercia)

Catch22; Redditch; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Pension scheme with matching up to 4%

Discounted shopping opportunities

Job summary

Catch22 is recruiting for an office-based role in Herefordshire, focusing on young people at risk of CSE/CCE. The post requires direct specialist knowledge, one-to-one engagement, and strong collaboration with key stakeholders to safeguard and support vulnerable youths.

Responsibilities include caseload management, assessment, and development of intervention and resilience plans, with emphasis on safeguarding, reporting, and partnership work with authorities.

Qualifications

• Direct experience with young people at levels 2–4 on the continuum of need.
• Experience planning, delivering and evaluating support activities with young people and their carers.
• Experience with case management including assessment, action planning and reviews.
• Experience with Health and Safety and risk management procedures.
• Experience working with multiple agencies to achieve outcomes.
• Extensive experience and understanding of Child Protection and safeguarding processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and sustain productive working relationships with referring agencies to ensure referrals.
• Manage a caseload, assess needs and develop intervention plans and timescales.
• Plan and deliver interventions per Catch22 policies and local guidance to achieve targets.
• Develop materials and deliver activities to build resilience and safety for young people.
• Collaborate with Local Authorities and safeguarding boards.
• Record interventions and multi-agency correspondence in MIS.
• Complete monitoring information for progress reports to funders and stakeholders.

Skills

Youth work experience

Case management

Multi-agency collaboration

Safeguarding knowledge

Job description

Job Description

Where you fit in

Our West Mercia Integrated Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Criminal Exploitation service works with young people, who are experiencing or at risk of child sexual exploitation (CSE) or Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE).

The role requires; direct specialist knowledge of the risk factors that lead to CSE and how to address these, the ability to engage with vulnerable young people on a one to one basis within a case management model, good knowledge of a range of tools and intervention models that can be used with young people on a 1:1 basis and an ability to work in an integrated way with key stakeholders involved in the child exploitation agenda.

Main Duties & Accountabilities

• Develop and sustain productive working relationships with referring agencies to ensure the regular and appropriate referrals are received.
• Manage a caseload undertaking assessments of young people’s needs and gathering all necessary information to develop intervention plans, vulnerability plans, within set timescales.
• Plan and deliver interventions in accordance with Catch22 policies and procedures and local authority guidance, to ensure effective use of resources and targets are achieved.
• Develop and sustain productive working relationships with referring agencies to ensure the regular and appropriate referrals are received.
• Develop materials and deliver activities to develop resilience and safety for young people.
• To work with the Local Authorities and their Local Safeguarding Children’s Board to establish strong multi-agency safeguarding partnerships.
• Record all intervention, contacts and multi-agency correspondence in accordance with the service specification within prescribed Management Information Systems
• Complete all required monitoring information by set timescales to assist the production of feedback reports to funders and stakeholders to track and monitor progress against outcome targets, KPIs etc.

Qualifications

You will need direct specialist knowledge of the risk factors that lead to exploitation and how to address them, the ability to engage with vulnerable young people on a one to one basis within a case management model, and an ability to work in an integrated way with key stakeholders involved in the CSE and CCE agenda. In addition we are looking for:

• Extensive experience of working directly with young people on level 2- 4 on the continuum of need presenting a variety of support needs
• Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating support activities for and with young people and their carers Experience and understanding of case management including assessment, action planning and reviews
• Experience and application of Health and Safety and risk management procedures
• Experience of working in partnership with a variety of agencies to achieve agreed outcomes.
• Extensive experience and understanding of Child Protection including Safeguarding processes and procedures.
• Experience of writing good quality reports that demonstrate the impact of work undertaken YP on a 1:1 basis.

For further details, please see our full Job Description and person specification.

Additional Information

Herefordshire - Office based, Hereford City

Contract type: Permanent

Hours per Week: 15

Salary: £26,650.00, pro-rata £10,804.05 per annum

The salary shown reflects the band for this role, with the final offer taking account of experience and relevant skills.

*Access to a car, and a full driving licence, is a requirement of this role.
*This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays,
• Pension scheme with matching contributions of up to 4%
• Discounted shopping opportunities

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At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

Please note, we will conduct an online search as part of our due dilligence checks for successful candidate(s). This will involve a search of all publicly available information online and in social media.

Catch22’s Commitment to Ban the Box

Catch22 is proud to have “Banned the Box". This means that we do not ask for candidates to disclose criminal convictions at the application stage. Instead, we invite disclosures at interview stage, and encourage them at the offer stage. Please see our statement of commitment on hiring people with convictions for more information.